Tumblr’s move to WordPress and fediverse integration is ‘on hold’

Automattic’s program to determination Tumblr’s backend implicit to WordPress is present “on hold,” Automattic laminitis and CEO Matt Mullenweg says successful a Decoder occurrence published today.

The institution announced the program to determination implicit the much than fractional a cardinal blogs connected Tumblr last year, saying that the alteration would “make it easier to stock our enactment crossed platforms.” But Mullenweg says connected Decoder that, “what we decided is that we privation to absorption arsenic overmuch connected the things that are going to beryllium noticeable to users and that users are asking for.”

It seems arsenic if the determination mightiness beryllium connected the array successful the future, though. “I inactive privation to bash it,” Mullenweg says. “It’s conscionable cleaner. But close now, we’re not moving connected it.”

The determination to halt the alteration besides appears to mean that Tumblr posts won’t beryllium disposable successful the fediverse successful the adjacent future. WordPress.com presently offers an ActivityPub plug-in, truthful Tumblr moving onto WordPress would theoretically fto radical bring Tumblr posts to the fediverse. “That would’ve been a escaped mode to get it,” Mullenweg says. “And truthful that was 1 of the arguments for migrating everything to WordPress.”

In the meantime, however, “I deliberation if determination was a large propulsion to instrumentality fediverse, we would conscionable bash it connected the Tumblr codification base,” according to Mullenweg.

Automattic purchased Tumblr from Verizon in 2019.